Swords into ploughshares for Pininfarina
It's powerful, it's red, it's got styling by Pininfarina and really, really big wheels!
But this isn't a new coachbuilt supercar. It is, as you'll have gathered, a tractor. A Pininfarina designed tractor at that. But still a tractor.
Nothing wrong with that and as Bertone folds we know times are tough for the Italian styling houses. Supercars and tractors have a celebrated history too of course, Porsche once having a sideline in agricultural machinery and some bloke called Lamborghini funding a supercar start-up off the back of his tractor business.
Design that "communicates emotion and passion" is perhaps something new for the farm machinery business though, Pininfarina Chief Creative Officer Fabio Filippini promising this and more for a new corporate styling language for the Czech tractor builder's range. The tractor is being displayed at the Agritechnica show in Hannover, an event we've never heard of but - to our inner three-year-olds at least - one that sounds rather fun if it involves sitting in lots of brightly coloured farm machinery. We'll sort our press accreditation and offer a full show report next time it's on!
I think anyone who loves all things automotive would find a lot of the agri stuff hugely interesting. Modern and classic.
Shame Ford sold to Fiatagri and became CNH, no more proper Ford Blue tractors. The Fords were a much better tractor to work on than any Fiat I had the misfortune to work on. I'll now put away my rose tinted glasses...
Shame Ford sold to Fiatagri and became CNH, no more proper Ford Blue tractors. The Fords were a much better tractor to work on than any Fiat I had the misfortune to work on. I'll now put away my rose tinted glasses...
Shame Ford sold to Fiatagri and became CNH, no more proper Ford Blue tractors. The Fords were a much better tractor to work on than any Fiat I had the misfortune to work on. I'll now put away my rose tinted glasses...
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